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THE POPE AND FATHERS OF THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL WILL MARK THE OPENING OF ITS FOURTH SESSION WITH A PENITENTIAL PROCESSION THROUGH THE STREETS OF ROME B EARING RELICS OF CHRIST'S PASSION.
Pope Paul VI announced this while exhorting "the whole Church" to penance and prayer for the success of the Council, which he described as "this God-given opportunity that the Church and the world have for the salvation of mankind" The Holy Father called for a cerenumy of penance in every Catholic church in the world. E said that children, H young men and women, and fathers and mothers of families should be invited to the ceremony. He urged the sick, "our most cherished children," to unite their spiritual and physical sufferings to the world-wide penitential ceremonies.
PENITENTIAL PROCESSION Pope Paul scheduled his own and the Council
Starts With Mass THE fourth and final I session of the Second Vatican Council will open with Pope Paul concelebrating Mass in St. Peter's with officers of the Council. Those eligible to concelebrate with the Pope include the 12 members of the Council of the Presidency, the four moderators and the six archbishop s and bishops who are members of the general secretariat of the Council.
Fathers' penitential procession for the afternoon of the Council's opening day, September 14, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Singing a n d carrying what Pope Paul referred to as "the outstanding relics of the Holy Cross," taken
tual distress, and to the still unmastered realities of suffering, sickness, hunger and war."
GREATER EFFECT He emphasised that the Council will not provide "the sole and immediate
EVENING MASSES
the Archbishop has given permission HISforGrace an evening Mass in each parish of the
A rchdiocese on Tuesday, September 14. This is in accordance with the wish of the Holy Father for penance and prayer for the opening of the final session of the Second Vatican Council. from Rome's Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, the Pope and the world's bishops will start from the basilica and proceed half a mile to the Pope's own cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran. St. Helen, mother of Emperor Constantine, and the discoverer of the relics of Christ's passion, built the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem to house the relics. Among them are fragments of the Cross, a piece of the trilingual sign which hung over Christ as He hung upon the Cross, a nail from the Cross and two thorns from Christ's crown.
EXPOSITION IN CHAPEL
His Holiness also announced that the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed The session will in the Pauline Chapel of not be opening a general congrega- the Apostolic Palace tion of the Council. Events throughout the Council's Of that Working day call for no fourth session. The Council consist agenda and will Fathers and all who work only of the Mass, a for the Council or the Vatidiscourse by the Pope ip can will be able to go there the morning and the peni- and pray for the Council's tential procession through success. the streets afternoon. of Rome in the The Pope chose the feast The first of the Holy Cross as openworking day of ing day of the Council so the Council will tember 15, when be Sep- that "all may grasp more the 128th deeply that He Who was general .Pen andcongregation will 'lifted up from the earth' ti.on of thebegin considera- on that wood is the only schema on reli- One Who draws all things gtous liberty. After to Himself." the cluded on debate is conPope Paul said that withreligious the agenda liberty, out Christ and without C calls for the obedience to His commandouncil to following take up in the ment of love, the achievesehemas order three other ments of man "are exposed Church in to the distressing uncertile Modern World, Priestly tainty of questions that .k441Je .and Afussions. Ministry, and the have no answer, to the weakening caused by mu-
solution" to such problems. But he asserted that the C ouncil "will have a greater effect that we can estimate," especially in the life of the Church. Pope Paul said that the Council will achieve this effect: • by encouraging clergy and laity to live their vocations more earnestly, • by changes "in some c anon i cal requirements that no longer serve the good of souls," • by modernising the Church's administration. • by invigorating the missionary activity of the Church, "which should strengthen and diffuse the message of peace and freedom for the world."
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P RIEST'S F ATHER MES AFTER being anointed by his son, Fathei D aniel Foley, Mr. Timothy Foley passed away quietly at the Royal Perth Annexe on Tuesday, September 7. Mr. Foley, who wa:. predeceased by his wife, the late Catherine Mary Foley, on August 20, 1962, was born in 1898 in County Kerry, Irelaind. He came to Australia as a single man in 1919. The rate Mr. and Mrs. Foley were married at St. Patrick's Church. Fremantle, in 1926 and lived all their married life in North Perth. He owned and operated his own dairy for many years and later in life he worked at the Victoria Hotel in West Perth. The Solemn Requiem Mass was offered in St. Paul's Church. Rookwood Street, by Father Foley on Thursday morning. He was assisted by Father W. Foley as deacon and Father J. P. O'Brien sub-deacon. Father W. Foley read the prayers at the cemetery. Mr. Foley is survived by his four sons and daughter. John, Daniel. Brian, Desmond and Margaret. May he rest in peace.
Sister M. E!ise Wynen, M.D., of the Medical Mission Sisters questions a patient carried five miles in a hammock to Holy Family Hospital, Quinhon, for admission. Within the past f ew months, thousands of refugees have settled in Quinhon, where the Medical Mission Sisters' hospital provides the only out -patient care for refugees. NC Photo
Johnson Hails U.N. Population Meeting PRESIDENT JOHNSON has called the need to balance the world's resources with its population a challenge second only to the search for peace. Mr. Johnson made his comment in a letter sent from the White House to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in connection with a U.N. Conference on World Population in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. "The United States government," said the Presi dent, "recognises the singii lar importance of the meet ing of the second United Nations World Population Conference and pledges its full support to your great undertaking." "Our government," he added. "assures your conference of our wholehearted support to the United Nations and its agencies in their efforts to achieve 3 better world through bring. ing into balance the world's resources and the world's population." "It is my fervent hope that your great assemblage
of population experts will contribute significantly to the knowledge necessary to solve this transcendent problem."
President Johnson
Ex-Army Chaplain Dies THE death occurred in I Adelaide on Thursday, September 2, of Father Francis Xavier Corry, 0.P., P.G., who at one time was Chaplain to the West Australian Battalion 2/4th Machine Gunners.
Father F. X. Corry
Father had been in indifferent health for 12 months or so, but had hopes of coming to Perth this month to renew acquaintance with his Army associates at a reunion of his old Battalion. Father Corry, who was born in Melbourne in 1907, having received his education from the F.C.J. Sisters and from the Jesuit Fathers at Xavier College. entered the Dominican Order in September, 1925, and after
studying for the priesthood in Tallaght, Ireland, and in Rome, was ordained on June 23, 1931. His priestly life before the war was spent main1.7 in Adelaide, whence he departed for Darwin in 1941 with his battalion en route to Singapore. which fell to the Japanese in May, 1942.
after which he prepared the way for the establishment of a Dominican foundation in Brisbane. He then returned to Adelaide where he worked for the remaining years of his life. It is a tribute to the religious spirit of Father Corry that, despite his harrowing wartime experiences he was able to slip back so TRANSFERRED easily into the regular patAfter a period of intern- tern of Dominican life. ment in Changi prison He is remembered with camp, Father Corry was great affection by his army transferred with A Force comrades in Perth for his to the Burma Railway ready sympathy, his infecproject, where he spent the tious serenity and the deep r emaining years of the concern which he showed war. for the religious needs of On being returned to "his boys." both Catholic Australia, Father spent a and non-Catholic. f ew years in Melbourne. R.I.P.